Opinion

Ken Gemmell (94) contrasts the rapid development of early Oamaru with the lack of progress on today's Forrester Heights subdivision.

The public interest at Pilots Beach on Otago Peninsula is being ignored, says Alan McMillan, of Public Access New Zealand.

Yesterday on the Peninsula - Ann Jacobson

As the Syrian opposition abandons nonviolent protest for armed resistance, many people think this means President Bashar al-Assad and his Baathist regime are in even deeper trouble than before.

Sam Goldwyn, the fabled mangler of the English tongue, once hurled a Hollywood script back at his writers yelling: "Give me some new cliches."

So it's goodbye Mr Smile and Wave, and hello Mr Grumpy. Or so the Prime Minister's critics would have you believe.

Brian Taylor, of Alexandra, joins the wilding pines debate by suggesting it might be time to reconfigure our responses and embrace greater biodiversity.

Things to do: 1) PACK FOR DUNEDIN: The predictable essentials: Clothes, shoes, toiletries. How much clothing? How many pairs of shoes? Which coloured face-cloth? Oh, year after year, such questions plague me.

What best serves the common good, asks Ian Harris as he reflects on the outrage at unbridled capitalism and greed.

Living in a warm, dry flat is a basic right, Otago University Students' Association president Logan Edgar says.